Pagan Virtue: An Essay in Ethics

by John Casey and John Casey

The study of the virtues has largely dropped out of modern philosophy, yet it was the predominant tradition in ethics from the ancient Greeks until Kant. Traditionally the study of the virtues included the study of what constituted a successful and happy life. Drawing on such diverse sources
as Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Shakespeare, Hume, Jane Austen, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Sartre, Casey here argues that the classical virtues of courage, temperance,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198240031
• ISBN13: 9780198240037
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"